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You might think that you’re a wonderful mystery understandable only to those who know you best.

But the sad fact of it all is that we humans are glaringly predictable, particularly if we’ve spent the past decade telling Facebook absolutely everything.

Now the grim reality of a world where Mark Zuckerberg’s minions can predict our every move is dawning, as it becomes clear that he can pretty much guess the future using data you’ve haplessly handed to him.

The social network has applied to patent technology which can even guess which location you’re going to head to at some point in the near future.

Zuckerberg’s team have dreamed up a crystal ball which can guess people’s ‘offline trajectories’ (Picture: PA)

This invention can guess people’s ‘offline trajectory’, which means the places they are likely to visit.

The tech does by – you guessed it – by chomping through the data you’ve already let Facebook gather about you.

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Facebook’s digital crystal ball analyses your previous location data and then compares it to similar information from others users, such as your friends or family members.

It can then make a pretty good stab at guessing when you’re going to visit a place.

Mark Zuckerberg’s technical staff have built technology which uses cameras, microphones and other sensors in gadgets to predict people’s ‘intentions’, the patent reveals.

This creepy invention can also work out people’s identity using ‘one or more’ of these sensors, even when the phone is in standby mode. It can even guess the identity of the people around them using facial or voice recognition.